INDEX. 
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Short, Mr. James his account of the tranfit of Venus, at Sa- 
vile-houfe, 1761, p. 178, 1 8 1 . — his account of Mr. 
Charles Mafon’s paper concerning the going of Mr. 
FJhcot’s clock, with remarks, p. 54.0 his account of 
the ec!ipfe of the Moon, May 8, 1762, p. 542 his 
compaiifon of the ohfervations of the tranfit of Venus 
over the Sun, in different parts of Europe, compared 
with thofe at the Cape of Good Hope, and the paral- 
lax of the Sun from thence determined, p. 61 1. 
Smoke, the cafe of a man ftupified by that of fea-coal, p. 
4-547 
Snow, [it’s great effedt with Aqua fortis in procuring cold, 
p 160, 168. — different fpirits joined with it produce 
d iff. rent degrees of cold, p. 169. , 
Solander , Dr. his account of the plant Gardenia, p. 1 r 
Sptftaclts of glafs, not known till the XIVth century, p. 
124. 
Spirits inflammable, poured into water caufe heat ; upon 
fnow, cold, p. 169. 
Statue of Venus, dug up at Mount Coelius, p. 45. 
Stephens, Mr. John, his account of an uncommon phaeno- 
menon in Dorfetfhire, p. 1 19. 
Stiles, Sir Francis Hajkins Eyles, his accounts of the erup- 
tion of Mount Vefuvius, p. 39. 41. 
Stone voided through the perinasum from the urethra, p. 
258. 
Surgery, two remarkable cafes in it, p. 515. 
Swinton , Mr. Rev.his differtation on a Samnite denarius,^. 
28. — his account of an Anthelion obferved near Oxford, 
p. 94. — and of a Meteor feen in Oxford, p. 99. 
T. 
' Thermometer and Barometer, a new one, deferibed, p. 146. 
‘Thunder Storms, account of two in Cornwall, A. D. 1761. 
p. 50 7. 
Tide r, obfervations on them at the Straits of Gibraltar, p . 
447. — at St. Helena, p. 592. 
Tranjtt. See Venus. 
U. 
Venus , a flattie of her difeovered at Rome, 44. 
